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The next iPhone and iOS - Is this what you want to see from it? (POLL)

Do you agree with most of the fixes listed in the OP?

  • Yes (Apple should hire a large staff and implement many of these suggestions)

    Votes: 210 78.9%

  • No (The iPhone is just about perfect, and doesn't need these improvements)

    Votes: 56 21.1%
  • Total voters
    266
daneoni said:
My wants are simple. Revamped notification system and live updating icons. The rest aren't that important to me.
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Read through the posts in this thread. Virtually everyone has just a few things they really really want, and they are all different.

Some people couldn't care less about live updating icons, while for you, it's among the most important features they could add.

The purpose of this thread was to compile all the little wishes and revisions people want to see, in one place, and I think I've done a great job with that.

Every single thing in the OP, atleast a few people in this thread really really want to see. Lets hope everyone gets their wish, if not by next July, atleast by July of 2012.
 
Email, Calendar, Contacts and Notes should be improved with a "new" MobileMe... and please do not wait until the new iPhone for this one.

Hotspot-ability and again improved Battery life would be great. But I do not want any of the "gaming device" upgrades because I see no sense in gaming on a phone and I do not want to pay for it.

But all in all - they should keep it simple. It is not possible to sattisfy everyones "needs" (wants).

Gorilla Glass maybe is a nice name... but do the pen "trick" on the iPhone and you wont see any scratches because it's just a pen... if they would have taken a pair of scissors... or a scalpel - this would be is a whole different story.

I do not use any protectors and my phone still is flawless, and it dropped a lot (I've got a Cat in my flat who likes to push things from the tables, bed, couch...).
 
Then you completely missed the conclusion of my post where I linked to this video which does indeed reference the PICO projector...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG3tLxEQEdg

As for the PS3, I know you're joking but all the specs suggest that the Tegra 2 (or if not that, then atleast the cortex a15) will be capable of producing visuals on par with the PS3's visual masterpiece, Uncharted 2.
 
whats funny is that almost everything you asked for in your list can be had with jailbreaking it. I got rid of all notifications, and I have the option for home page widgets for weather, missed calls, texts, e-mails, etc... I can even reply to most of those things right from the homepage. I can DL and save youtube videos in HD right to my phone too, so I dont have to stream anything.
 
And that's why so many people jailbreak their phones. Even my phone is jailbroken.

It wouldn't be if Apple implement these fixes natively. And jailbreaking is only a temporary solution.

Many had to update to 4.1 to fix the broken proximity sensor issue, and that hasn't been jailbroken. Likewise, if I ever accidently brick my phone, I lose the jailbreak when I recover the phone. If I ever need to take the iPhone to the Apple store for any issue what so ever, I will have to get rid of the jailbreak and update. And most importantly, whenever I switch over to the iPhone 5 or 6, I will lose my jailbreak.
 
Yeah. They should look at the great things about jailbreaking (other than stealing apps or music and things like that) and put them on! I always wonder why apple doesn't just hire more people and get more done.
 
Absolutely.

It never ceases to amaze me all the really cool features and functionality that the jailbreak community managed to come out with.

And this was all done for the most part by individual devs working in their spare time for free. Imagine what a large team of dedicated highly skilled devs at Apple could pull off, especially if they could borrow for their ideas.
 
wikoogle said:
Absolutely.

It never ceases to amaze me all the really cool features and functionality that the jailbreak community managed to come out with.

And this was all done for the most part by individual devs working in their spare time for free. Imagine what a large team of dedicated highly skilled devs at Apple could pull off, especially if they could borrow for their ideas.
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And that's where Apple pulled most of it's updates from with the iPhone 4. Not so much innovating as giving the users what they could already get through jail-breaking. "But we did it better". lol
 
Integrated SIP support
Mass Storage Support on Windows(Access to filesystem, drag and drop support)
Alarm with a configurable snooze function
divx/xvid/mkv support
REAL multitasking, i.e. kirikae+backgrounder
Widgets/Live icons
Themes
Free navigation with an ability to download maps to use them offline
Ability to change SMS/email tones
Full Bluetooth support, sending files, contacts, syncing, etc...
Better Notification System, Android's is perfect
 
bartonlynch said:
Yeah. They should look at the great things about jailbreaking (other than stealing apps or music and things like that) and put them on! I always wonder why apple doesn't just hire more people and get more done.
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Then you end up with any large corporation's problem (like Microsoft) of losing some control due to not being able to manage every aspect. Apple has one vision and that shows in every product they make.
 
It's possible to take a closed garden approach without incorporating crippling software deficiences.

Mac OSX is good example. There really isn't anything that you can't do on OSX that you can do with Windows 7. Sure, there's some software that only Windows runs. But there's always a mac equivalent that you can use to get the same result.

Not so in the case of iPhone vs. Andriod. Almost every software fix asked for in the OP is something that Andriod phones already do.

Vitruviux said:
Integrated SIP support
Mass Storage Support on Windows(Access to filesystem, drag and drop support)
Alarm with a configurable snooze function
divx/xvid/mkv support
REAL multitasking, i.e. kirikae+backgrounder
Widgets/Live icons
Themes
Free navigation with an ability to download maps to use them offline
Ability to change SMS/email tones
Full Bluetooth support, sending files, contacts, syncing, etc...
Better Notification System, Android's is perfect
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All of these suggestions were already in the OP. However, I elaborated on the mass storage support you asked for as it was only vaguely mentioned previously.

:)
 
wouldn't constantly changing the clock speed on the processor actually degrade battery life?
 
Not at all. The Armada Tri-core has 2 1.5ghz Arm A9 cores and a small 600mhz core that is what runs the majority of the time, when all you're doing is using the OS, nothing intensive. It gets it's battery life in days, not hours.

Good god this poll is producing lopsided results. :eek:
 
The 4'' Screen is not going to happen, developers of over 350,000 apps would have to modify their apps once again to support the new iPhone (as done with the iPad) and that is not going to happen.
 
ssdeg7 said:
The 4'' Screen is not going to happen, developers of over 350,000 apps would have to modify their apps once again to support the new iPhone (as done with the iPad) and that is not going to happen.
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Lol, no they wouldn't.

It would be a 4" screen with a resolution of 960x640

As long as the resolution stays the same, the developers wouldn't have to do a damn thing. Everything would work perfectly from the get go.
 
I'd say is the screen grows, so does resolution. I mean, they don't want to lose the retina display selling point right? And a larger screen would make the ppi less
 
The term "Retina Display" is a completely meaningless largely undefined and vague marketing term.

A 4" inch iphone screen with a resolution of 960x640 would still have roughly double the PPI of the iPad and iPhone 3GS.

You don't hear many complaints about the iPad's display. So why would people complain about a device with DOUBLE the PPI if the iPad?
 
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